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Your are an ambitious researcher (7-12 years post-PhD) about to establish your own research team and have a ground-breaking research idea! Then, the ERC Consolidator Grant is for you.

Those calls are extremely competitive, so you need support.

Contact FoS to enroll in our ERC Mentoring Program @ BOKU.

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The 17^th Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators call 2026 “Environmental Systems Research” can fund up to three group leader positions, with up to € 1.8 million per research group over a period of six to eight years. The Vienna Research Groups for Young Investigators (VRG) programme is designed to attract outstanding early-career researchers from abroad to Vienna who seek to advance their research career by establishing an independent research group. 

The first step @ BOKU: the researchers potentially interested to host a VRG leader should contact us before the 10th of Nov. 2025. More info here.

Gefördert werden Forschungsprojekte, die sich mit Aspekten des Klimawandels, dessen Auswirkungen in Österreich und möglichen Anpassungsmaßnahmen auseinandersetzen.
Die maximale Finanzierung pro Projekt beträgt 200.000 Euro. Dabei sind heuer folgende Themenfelder ausgeschrieben:

• Understanding the climate system and consequences of climate change
• Specific support for Austria’s policymakers
• Transformative change

Da die Deadline recht knapp nach den Osterferien angesetzt ist und wieder sehr viele Einreichungen zu erwarten sind, geben Sie FoS-PSU bitte umgehend ein Aviso, wenn Sie planen einzureichen, damit wir abschätzen können, wie hoch der zu erwartende Arbeitsaufwand sein wird. Um auch unter diesen Rahmenbedingungen eine zeitgerechte Bearbeitung und Freigabe sicherstellen zu können, ist bitte die ePM schon bis 23.3.2026 zu übermitteln.

CL5: Climate, Energy and Mobility: two calls in the Destination 1 “Climate sciences and responses”. Check it out!

• HORIZON-CL5-2026-07 5 topics
• HORIZON-CL5-2026-08-Two-Stage 1 topic

For support at proposal preparation, contact Lada Fialova lada.fialova(at)boku.ac.at 

CL6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Ressources, Agriculture and Environment

Call 02 - single stage (2026) (HORIZON-CL6-2026-02)  17 topics

For support at proposal preparation, contact Lada Fialova lada.fialova(at)boku.ac.at 

CL6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Ressources, Agriculture and Environment

Call 03 - single stage (2026) (HORIZON-CL6-2026-03) 10 topics

For support at proposal preparation, contact Lada Fialova lada.fialova(at)boku.ac.at 

CL6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Ressources, Agriculture and Environment

AI in Science (HORIZON-RAISE-2026-01) 2 topics

For support at proposal preparation, contact Lada Fialova lada.fialova(at)boku.ac.at 

Innovative Health Initiative (IHI)

Horizon Europe partnership

The IHI has open a bottom-up call (= open for any research idea fitting into one of the following strategic areas):

• Topic 1 (SO1): Boosting innovation for a better understanding of the determinants of health
• Topic 2 (SO2): Boosting innovation through better integration of fragmented health R&I efforts
• Topic 3 (SO3): Boosting innovation for people-centred integrated healthcare solutions
• Topic 4 (SO4): Boosting innovation through exploitation of digitalisation and data exchange in healthcare
• Topic 5 (SO5): Boosting innovation for better assessment of the added value of innovative integrated healthcare solutions

45% of the project costs must be covered by industrial partners! More information on the Call including application documents can be found HERE

You are an established researcher and have a ground-breaking research idea! Then, the ERC Advanced Grant is for you.

Contact us in advance to get support!

More Info # ERC

28.05.2026